Folklore (Folk tales, fairy tales, fables, legends, tall tales, myths)
- Elements of a Story: Interactive from Annenberg Media
- For homework:
- Bearse (1991): The fairy tale connection in children's stories: Cinderella Meets Sleeping Beauty
Bearse 1992 Cinderella.pdf- Details
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- Cinderella Around the World: A Telecollaborative Internet Project- BEWARE of the volume of the music! - Click on the About the Project link to get a sense of the project's learning objectives. Explore a few of the activities and links to locate two interesting lesson ideas. Explore at least five different class projects in the student showcase and prepare a short list of at least five different ways students responded to the task(s).
- Bearse (1991): The fairy tale connection in children's stories: Cinderella Meets Sleeping Beauty
- Other Cinderella Ideas:
- Versions of Cinderella
- Cinderella Titles List by Continent
- SurLeLune Fairytales: Tales Similar to Cinderella
- Happily Ever After or Not: A Cinderella Webquest for 6th Graders
- Multicultural Cinderella Stories - Annotated Bibliography
- The Smiling Flower - Iranian (not in English)
- Hans Christian Anderson Multiple Fairy Tales Lessons
- Visualizing with Tableaux: Workshop Ideas to Share and Vocabulary Tableaux in Middle School>
- POURQUOI TALES
- Teaching with Pourquoi Tales: Ideas from Scholastic
- Elementary School Students Responding with Online Publications - Fourth-Grade Pourquoi Stories
- Read, Write, Think Lesson Plan: Pourquoi Stories: Creating Tales to Tell Why
- TRICKSTER TALES
- Aesop and Anansi: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales (a lesson plan)
- Native American Trickster Tales
- American Folklore and Trickster Tales
- TALL TALES
- American Folklore and Tall Tales
- Exploring Tall Tales with Students and the Internet
- Read, Write, Think Lesson Plan: Thundering Tall Tales: Using Read-Aloud as A Springboard to Writing
- Tall Tales Pathfinder
- Lesson Plan: Tall Tales Today